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Eighty-four pottery model dishes, [Type D LXXIX a], and fragments of about ten others; ordinary brown ware.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-4-14
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_14-4-14; 14-4-14
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Entry Date
04/04/1914, 04/07/1914
Title
Pottery model dishes
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: all: ca 2 cm Diameter: all: ca 6.5 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
G 4520 b (= published G 4520 A), chamber
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 504, fig. 310, p. 507. Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 87.
Remarks
Eleven of eighty-four pottery model dishes accessioned as MFA 14.1657.1–MFA 14.1657.11
Problems/Questions
MFA accession numbers verified

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